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Kiku-6

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 28 Aug 1994, 07:50 am UTC

Rocket: H-II (H-II)

Provider: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Yoshinobu Launch Complex LP-1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan

Mission Description

ETS 6 (Engineering Test Satellite) was developed to confirm the technology required for a geostationary three-axis satellite bus system for high performance practical satellites in the 1990's, and to test advanced satellite communications equipment.